VEW v VEV
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VEW v VEV [2024] SGHCF 19 was decided by the General Division of the High Court (Family Division) of Singapore on 24 April 2024, in District Court Appeal No 4 of 2024, with Choo Han Teck J delivering the reserved judgment after a hearing on 15 April 2024. The parties were married in July 2011 and have one daughter, aged 9, and one son, aged 7. Interim judgment was granted on 5 March 2019, with ancillary matters orders on 8 October 2019, awarding joint custody of the children, sole care and control to the Wife, and maintenance payable by the Husband for the Wife and the two children, with the children's school fees paid directly by the Husband to the school. The Wife is a teacher at an international school, and the Husband is an English barrister who works as a mediator, counsel and arbitrator; both are Singapore permanent residents. Both children attend the same local primary school, the daughter since Primary One in 2022 and the son since Primary One in January 2024, in compliance with District Judge Jen Koh's orders in FC/SUM 1151/2021 and FC/SUM 318/2023. The appeal concerned the variation of consent orders and whether the children should be moved from the local school to an international school.
Summary
In this District Court appeal in the General Division of the High Court (Family Division), a wife who teaches at an international school appealed against a district judge's dismissal of her application to move the parties' two children from their local primary school to the international school where she works, the husband being an English barrister working as a mediator, counsel and arbitrator. The court considered whether moving the children was in their best interests, including the wife's arguments about caregiving and financial savings, and held that affordability was not the yardstick for a change of school. The court dismissed the wife's appeal and made no order as to costs.
What was VEW v VEV [2024] SGHCF 19 about?
Decided 24 April 2024 by Choo Han Teck J in the High Court (Family Division), the appeal concerned the variation of consent orders and whether the parties' two children should be moved from their local primary school to an international school.
What were the family circumstances in VEW v VEV?
The parties married in July 2011 and have a daughter aged 9 and a son aged 7. Interim judgment was granted on 5 March 2019, with joint custody, sole care and control to the Wife, and maintenance and school fees paid by the Husband; both are Singapore permanent residents.
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